Sanbo Kyodan

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Ryûbi Vivien Boey is guiding teacher of the Zen Society in Singapore. She graduated from University of Singapore with a Bachelor in Business Administration. She has interest in wholeness and integrative practices (e.g. Jin Shin Jyutsu). In 2003, she was authorized to be an Assistant Zen Teacher of the Sanbô-Zen Lineage and was certified as a Zen Teacher in 2005.

Efren Borromeo is a Roman Catholic priest and a Zen Master with the Sanbo Zen tradition. In addition to his role as a Zen teacher, Borromeo also considers himself a “healer”. “He is endowed with special gifts of healing.” – Trinitas Integrative Healing Ministry

Niklaus Brantschen completed his formal training as a Zen teacher in the Sanbo-Kyodan tradition under the direction of Yamada Koun Roshi in Kamakura and was given the name Go-Un-Ken (“Cloud of Enlightenment”). A member of the White Plum Asanga, he got Inka-Shomei from Tetsugen Bernard Glassman in the White Plum Sangha in 1999 and received the additional Dharma name Jinshu ...

Sei’un An Li-Yea Bretz was born in Taipei, Taiwan and lived in Malaya and Singapore for a number of years before immigrating to Brisbane, Australia in 1975. ​ In 1992, Li-Yea Bretz met Sei’un Roselyn Stone Roshi in Brisbane and took up Zen practice with her in 1994. In the same year, Sei’un Roshi confirmed her kensho (‘awakening’). In 2000, ...

Brigitte D’Ortschy, (May 31, 1921—July 9, 1990), a.k.a. Koun An Roshi, was the first German master of the Sanbo-Kyodan school of Zen and a Dharma heir of both Haku’un Yasutani-roshi and Koun Yamada-roshi. D’Ortschy had moved to Japan in 1963 and in the following year had met Haku’un Yasutani, studying under the prolific teacher at Fukusho-ji in Tokio and in ...

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Uta Ryûun Dreisbach received her Zen training from Willigis Jäger Kyo-un Roshi, then a Zen master with Sanbô-Zen. Since 2010 has been an Associate Zen master of Sanbô-Zen, authorized by Ryôun Masamichi Yamada Roshi. She lives and teaches in Germany.

Fr. Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle (November 11, 1898—July 7, 1990) was a German Jesuit priest and Sanbo Kyodan Zen master, a Dharma successor of the late Yamada Koun Roshi. As a missionary in Japan, his initial interest in Zen practice stemmed from his desire to better understand the Japanese people, who he began working with in 1929 when he established a settlement ...

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Shuhô-Ken Othmar Franthal (born 1956) is a Zen Master of the Sanbo-Kyodan and Director at the St. Francis retreat center in Dietfurt/Germany. Born 1956 in Vorau/Austria. He trained as a motor mechanic to take on the family enterprise. At the age of 19 he survived a serious car incident. This was the beginning of a new orientation in his life. ...

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